Chapter 42 After the yearly exam (1)

Chapter 42 After the yearly exam (1)

Chapter 42: After the yearly exam (1)

Brandi appeared in the gray world, with nothing but a vast expanse of silver desert expanding before her and tall eminences stretching their peaks to the skies: a few of them had their peaks actually shrouded in thick clouds.

Although those natural elements were enough to hold her attention for a long while, the rampage going on in the silver desert instantly gripped Brandi's eyes, not giving her the option to look away.

One of the people she had a complicated relationship with was in the middle of a battle, surrounded by hulking and different skeleton monsters whose frames and flesh would have been enough to entirely cover Nakisha.

If it weren't for the skeletons being only bones, Brandi wouldn't have noticed her that easily.

Well, unless she waited for a few seconds to see Nakisha striking a punch from below, sending one of them flying.

After battling them with nothing but her bare hands and body, Nakisha threw the leftovers of the defeated skeleton monsters into the pile of bones, which could be called a mountain because of how many she had already destroyed and killed.

Strangely enough, there was a black maid dress atop that mountain.

Cresting it on her four like a wild woman from the forest, with her long bushy hair scratching her back and ass, Nakisha climbed the crown of the mountain and sat down before doing something that left Brandi with widened and shocked eyes.

Nakisha put the black maid dress on her muscular curves before drawing a sigh and yawning.

At that moment, all skeleton monsters stopped their advances and returned to the desert, considering Nakisha one of her allies...

Which was an astonishing sight on its own.

"Cute," Brandi whispered, her purple eyes reflecting the yawning red wolf woman.

And then, she summoned her purple cloud, whose texture was thicker and darker. She stepped on it before perching her big ass on it, dangling her legs and feet off the edge.

Her little car flew toward the only alive soul in the entire gray world like a cloud of Sun Wukong!

At the same time, Nakisha had finally noticed Brandi's presence.

She twisted her face and extended her hand for a long bone before gnawing on it.

At last, Brandi and Nakisha could see each other well. The contrast between them was quite big, for Nakisha was sitting like a gangster on the pile of defeated monsters, her legs spread and her right elbow digging into her thigh as she supported her head on her right palm.

Her purple-black-haired acquaintance was shrouded in a different mood, for she was still comfortably sinking into her purple cloud, with her legs rocking, clearly in a good mood. She was like a taciturn noble lady respectfully taking in everything that was happening around her, appreciating the world.

"What?" Nakisha crushed her bone with her teeth and spat minced leftovers to the side before glaring at Brandi...

...whose lips were already grinning from ear to ear.

She said, "I didn't expect to see this kind of you... this maid dress suits you."

"Want to die?" Nakisha's glare deepened, "If I don't put it on, all those bastards won't give me a break. If there was some flesh to munch on, I wouldn't have been forced to wear this shit!"

"Excuses," Brandi quietly laughed, "This world feels like something you'd love to live in... only if there was blood and flesh. So it appears you have been only fighting here?"

"Ye," Nakisha shrugged and added a few more details. "I tried climbing up that mountain, naked and with this dress on, but I can't reach the top. At the end of it, the wind becomes too much, hustling me off the grooves. The same goes for this desert. It never ends, and the skeletons I face are of the same quality. Their only quality is their quantity."

While it was interesting to hear about the seal and world within Hunter, Nakisha's milder personality was even more intriguing, at least for now. Brandi couldn't help but take a few glances at the red wolf's fed-up face and her munching on the bones.

She was cuter... more approachable... and overall not the wild woman she used to be.

Which meant that there was really no exit from this world... and that more mysteries had yet to be unlocked.

Nakisha carried on, "It's all because of mate's low strength, I guess? Ye, it must be him. Since he managed to find another one, he must have gone through more development. That's my boy. Can't wait to see him here to face him again!" The red wolf spoke endearingly about Hunter in her own way before dangerously narrowing her eyes at Brandi, "How did he get you?"

"I was sealed in The First Hunter Union's Spirit Guardian's Domain. Her domain got invaded by demons, and the seal of my prison somehow broke, giving me room to wander across the chaos. Whatever faction of demons dared to go for it, they must have done their research. An elven spirit's seal rooted to the mortal world isn't child's play to break. And it's descendant of the elven queen dwelling in the First Hunter Union, at that."

"Celestia..." Nakisha barked, "It must have been her who freed you! She's a plotting bitch, if I have ever seen one!"

Brandi tilted her little head, "Celestia?"

"This bitch is not a simple woman. She gave me a different feeling from everyone I had seen before. Only mate smells more dangerous than her. Were you guided to my mate? Has something pulled you toward him? Wind, maybe? Smell? You're a sheep, so it's easy to manipulate you!"

"Rude," Brandi harrumphed, "I sensed a different kind of energy unrelated to demons or humans. Then I managed to sniff you out."

"What are you, a dog?" Nakisha sneered.

"You're closer to a dog, aren't you?" Brandi flatly replied.

Nakisha showed her canines to this statement before returning to the main topic, "I think Celestia knows our real identity."

Brandi replied in a serious tone, "Now... that's a problem."

"Hah! If she wants to use my mate to bring it out, she's in to get surprised!"

These two looked behind at the tall eminences, which appeared like pillars of the gray world...

Nakisha sneered.

And her new companion in her struggles in the gray world was compelled to agree.

"Sly people often end up dying to their own schemes."

A few minutes later, Brandi faced off against a skeleton monster.

Her first reward for defeating a new foe was... a black maid dress.

She said, "I can take a fancy to it."

Nakisha barked, "It's uncomfortable. Anything that restricts my legs is."

"Just make a long cut on your dress, then."

"...it's not that bad now."

-

Outside the gray world, more precisely in the First Hunter Union, the yearly exam was now over.

It ended with the demons' invasion, which ended up as a failure, for demons failed to get their hands on what they wanted.

It fell into someone else's hands instead.

A lot of aspiring hunters died, however. And with them, a few hunters that bravely had swore to protect them.

And while that invasion no longer involved weak hunters like Hunter, Aimee, or Seraphina, the higher-ups of the union were still concerned, tending to their businesses.

A few days after that, Savannah, the guild leader of the Beast Domination Guild, entered the spirit guardian's domain, whose part of it was littered with a vast chasm.

She jumped off the cliff and headed to the cave... where her grandchild, Aza, had perished.

Standing with her muscles taut and tense, she exuded the aura of a beast queen intensely searching out the entire cave for food, or perhaps it was just her grieving over her dead family member.

Nonetheless, no one sane would approach her in this state.

Her entire presence was domineering and suffocating.

Yet, gentle winds flooded the cave, and a woman whose dark hair and eyes prevailed in the darkness casually stepped inside, instantly making the shadows bow in her presence.

"Looking out for evidence? Trails of the demons, humans, exalted spirit, or someone else?" Celestia questioned aloud, leaning her back on the rough cave, her arms crossed.

Savannah didn't reply to her, her eyes still tightly shut.

Celestia wasn't done, however, "Was it the order from your master, Asmodeus, or are you genuinely saddened by the loss of this insignificant woman?"

"Do not stoop so low to slander me like that, Celestia."

"But it is you who goes low every month, on her four to be precise, to get fucked by Asmodeus and his demon legion, in all her three holes at that. You can drop your pretense and speak honestly with me. Savannah, I've known about your 'beast' secret for years. Because of you and your connection to the Asmodeus, I could track Nakisha, the exalted spirit, before he got his hands on her. I'd love to keep this one-sided secret between us for much longer... but you genuinely irked me by allowing them to invade the union. I actually had my eyes on a few participants this year, as you could see..."

"And you dare to face me while knowing all of that? I am no longer a human, Celestia! I am a beast, demon, and human, the hybrid transcending humanity's and spirits' limits! I own all human and beast origins! And Master Asmodeus's Origin is dwelling within me as well! I'm much stronger than a feeble and soft human like you!"

Celestia faintly curved her lips up, "And who said I am a human?"

-

Far away from the First Hunter Union, a Beast Domination Guild team was returning home.

They were stopped by someone, however.

"You're... Aza's twin sister, aren't you? Iza, right?" A golden-black-haired woman with dark eyes spoke in a flat tone, encased in black armor, holding a red sword.

Iza crossed her arms haughtily before replying, "And you are... Charlotte from the Darkness Guild? What you want?"

Just like Iza, the rest of the team had sensed the killing intent rippling in Charlotte's dark eyes.

She parted her lips slowly, "There's a reverse scale... that everyone has... and mine is that stupid silly little sister of mine..." Her eyes widened madly, making her seem like a demoness in human flesh, "I want to kill you slowly, of course. That's the only way I can vent out those brewing feelings your asinine twin sister induced in me. I'm also doing you a favor. Better to die off my blade than become Asmodeus' plaything."

Charlotte's sword and curves became coated with a red aura, her skin slightly reddened, and sparkling beads of sweat slowly sizzled and trickled down. Her presence drowned the forest in immense heat, and some of the trees were already lit in flames while shrouded in a blurring blanket.

"The fuck-"

Before Iza could question her, Charlotte kicked the ground and rose to the skies, turning the blue sky crimson for a second before plummeting at the woman she wanted to kill so much.

Her burning stamina lit up everything, including her muscles!

A few minutes later, Iza boarded a deceased ship that her twin sister, Oona, and grandma Savannah were already on, drifting the mute voyage of dead souls.